The journal continues to receive a high number of submissions across all areas of evolutionary biology and we would encourage you to submit your paper to the journal. Evolutionary Applications publishes papers that utilize concepts from evolutionary biology to address biological questions of health, social and economic relevance. In order to better serve the community, we also now strongly encourage submissions of papers making use of modern molecular and genetic methods to address important questions in any of these disciplines and in an applied evolutionary framework. Two of the papers highlighted above are good examples of this sort of paper. Further information about the journal’s aims and scopes can be found on the website.